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He wrote the book in Aramaic in the hope that his account would convince his fellow people that Jesus was the Messiah and that His kingdom had been fulfilled in a spiritual way.

It was an important message at a time when almost everyone was expecting the return of a militant messiah brandishing a sword. Matthew, in your Gospel you portray Jesus as the longed-for Messiah who fulfilled the Prophets of the Old Covenant and as the new Lawgiver who founded a Church of the New Covenant.

People who have simply been arrested will not be filtered out by the app, with only those with convictions being banned.